BERKELEY — A man free on bail in a March Peeping Tom case was arrested as a suspect in two new similar cases involving another woman, police said Thursday.

Police credited residents in the area with helping identify the suspect. The residents told police that they had seen the man on a couple of prior occasions, and even recognized him from a previous news article. That helped police, who waited for him to show up Wednesday morning at the woman’s home.

He was identified as Pedro Sosa Jacobo, 56, of Oakland, who police said did not know the woman most recently targeted.

According to police, on Oct. 5 a woman living in the 1300 block of Hopkins Street reported that someone had been “peeping” in her windows in the morning.

As police investigated they learned that the suspect was also seen by neighbors of the woman “peeping” on two prior occasions, and the neighbors recognized his photograph from a previous news article about his earlier arrest. Over the next few days, officers identified Jacobo as the suspect and obtained a warrant for his arrest.

About 6:20 a.m. Wednesday, the suspect returned to the Hopkins Street residence but this time officers were waiting for him. When officers tried to detain the suspect on the side of the house, he ran away, but a perimeter had already been established, and he did not make it far before he was captured.

At the time of his arrest Jacobo was free on bail in the March peeping incident. He was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of felony stalking, felony committing a crime while out on bail, misdemeanor peeping and his outstanding arrest warrant.

Jacobo is being held on $160,000 bail at Santa Rita Jail and is scheduled to be arraigned Friday.

Harry Harris is a Pulitzer Prize winning breaking news reporter for the Bay Area News Group. He began his Oakland Tribune career in September 1965 as a 17-year-old copyboy. He became a reporter in 1972 and is considered one of the best crime and breaking news reporters in the country. He has covered tens of thousands of murders and other crimes in the East Bay. He has also mentored dozens of young reporters, some of whom continue to work in journalism today.

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